Word: myopia
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...doctrine is to fight for freedom. Why is the doctrine being denied in Pretoria?" Other reaction on Capitol Hill ranged along a narrow spectrum from outrage to disappointment; virtually no one from either party came to the President's side. Democrats generally saw Reagan as the victim of moral myopia and of enlisting on the wrong side of history. Said Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa: "President Reagan abandoned any pretense of providing moral leadership...
Mona Lisa, a lavishly praised new British film, proves you don't have to be in Hollywood to go Hollywood. It begins with a powerful perception: when a man looks at a woman, he sees the fiction he has created of her, and out of this visionary myopia, this need to fashion a Galatea or a Bride of Frankenstein, come love, lust, violence and art. Simone (Cathy Tyson), a chic London call girl, understands this impulse in men and knows how to indulge it to her profit. Well, it's a living. But to George (Bob Hoskins), assigned...
Weinberger's decision--and the military associations' support of it--are short-sighted. And the tobacco industry's defense of their myopia is specious...
...Harvard golf team--the last Crimson squad to win it all--is now a forgotten part of Harvard history. The Myopia Hunt Club, located in South Hamilton, Mass.--about 20 miles north of Boston--is still there, still gaining renown for the polo competitions it sponsors...
...lingering around the Providence Civic Center--site of the 1986 Final Four--next March, it better be careful. Harvard's NCAA Team Champions Year Sport Site 1898 (spring) Golf (unknown) 1899 Golf (unknown) 1901 Golf Atlantic City 1902 (fall) Golf Morris County 1903 Golf Garden City 1904 Golf Myopia...